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I don’t propose to
attempt any sort of reply to Martin Heidegger in this article. The purpose of this article is
to explain Martin Heidegger’s thoughts, as they are found in the book, Identity and Difference. Martin
Heidegger is a difficult thinker to understand, and requires a lot of work to
fully appreciate his arguments. My primary goal in this article is to introduce
the reader to two very important articles written by Heidegger, and, I hope, to
properly explain Heidegger’s views on Being and beings. This book is composed of two
articles written by Martin Heidegger and translated with an introduction by
Joan Stambaugh. The first article, The
Principle of Identity, is “the unchanged text of a lecture given on the
occasion of the 500th anniversary of the University of Freiburg im
Breisgau, for the faculty day on June 27, 1957.”[1]
The second article The Onto-theo-logical
Constitution of Metaphysics, is “the explication that concluded a seminar
during the wint…

A thought I just had as I am studying Van Til's "The Defense of the Faith". There is an inverse proportion between what
is most knowable in itself, and what is easiest for man, by nature, to know.
One of the essential differences between classical apologetics and
presuppositional apologetics is that classical apologetics begins with what is
easiest for man, by nature, to know, and seeks to bring man to that which can
be known by man of that which is most knowable in itself; presuppositional
apologetics begins by claiming that one must presuppose that that which is most
knowable in itself is true in order to truly know that which is easiest for
man, by nature, to know, and then seeks to show man that even those things
which are easiest for him to know only get their truest "meaning"
when understood in light of that which is most knowable in itself.

Though there may be some major difficulties
with one (or both) of these approaches, it is important to note that they…

Perspectives on the Ending of Mark: 4 views. Edited by David Alan Black. Nashville,
TN: B&H Academics, 2008. 145 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978-080544762-0. Biblical apologetics could be
described as the act of giving a defense of the Christian scriptures. In order
to give a reasoned critique of the Christian scriptures one needs to understand
the methods, issues, and arguments surrounding the study of the biblical
manuscripts, both interior and exterior critiques. One of the most important
issues for the defense of the canonical Gospels is the question of the ending
of the Gospel of Mark. Most textual issues have to do with word variation, or the
occasional phrase, but with the Gospel of Mark we are dealing with textual
variants which bring into question the entire ending of Marks Gospel (16:9-20).
Of course the amount of reading that would be necessary to understand the
issues is enormous, that it is important for anyone who wishes to begin
researching these subjects to have ac…

The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a
Postmodern Context.
Myron Bradley Penner. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. 180 pp. $16.60.
ISBN 978-0-8010-3598-2. Christian apologetics, broadly
defined, is the defense of the truth of Christianity. In this definition there
are three terms that need further elaboration: defense, truth, and Christianity.
The vast majority of faithful Christian witnesses throughout the history of the
Christian church have understood this definition of Christian apologetics as referring
to the demonstration (in action and speech) of the truth (broadly understood as
the notion that the truth claims of Christianity, which include claims that can
be analysed by the historian, archaeologist, theologian and philosopher, when
put to the test will be found to accurately reflect both past history and
present reality) of Christianity (the sum total of beliefs that are believed by
Christians and which affect their lives, intellects and understanding…